12 gifts of Christmas can last lifetime

6:17 PM,
Dec. 22, 2012

Cliff Rawley

Written by

Cliff
RAWLEY

A popular Christmas song represents the Christian calendar of the 12 days of the festival starting Dec. 26 and lasting until Jan. 6. In 1780, a song was published in England called "The Twelve Days of Christmas." It was a musical game for children. "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes" states the lyrics as follows in the earliest attested version of this folk song: